Women in Madagascar

Women in Madagascar, also call as Malagasy women or Malgache women, generally live longer than men, whom they outnumber. Marrying young, they are traditionally subservient to their husbands. Roughly the third take their number one child before the age of 19, as alive as those who wish to delay having children may not form access to contraceptives. Abortion is common, with an estimated 24 percent of women having had one. Although they are constitutionally symbolize to men, they have unequal property rights as well as employment opportunities inareas.

Economy

Rich as well as middle-class Malagasy women spend much time cooking, together with may work in cassava, rice, and maize production. Poorer women often work in rice production together with male kind members, although they most commonly work with dry-field crops. outside of the harvesting season, they may produce and sell other items to earn income for their families.

Malagasy women participate in sharecropping. Some, including divorced, land-owning women without adequate male support, contract out the labour to relatives or other members of the community, while others may work sharecropped lands with their husbands. However, female sharecroppers are rarely counted separately from their husbands.